Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 24 MARCH 2004

R1.001 Polymer Physics II

R1.002 Time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy of the organic molecular crystal DAST

Joshua C. May, Ivan Biaggio (Department of physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015.)

R1.003 Phenomenological model of structure development in holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal gratings

Richard Sutherland, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi Natarajan (Science Applications International Corporation), Timothy Bunning (Air Force Research Laboratory/Materials and Manufacturing Directorate)

R1.004 HPLC Separation and Characterization of Oligo(2,5-dioctoxy-p-phenylene vinylene)

Kyungseok Oh, Chang Yeol Ryu (Chemistry-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

R1.005 Localization effects in active resonant structures fabricated by holographic photopolymerization

Jay Klosterman, Augustine Urbas, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi Natarajan, Richard Sutherland, Timothy Bunning (Air Force Research Laboratory/MLPJ)

R1.006 The Synthesis and Characterization of High Performance Poly(thiophene)

Matt Graham, Shi Jin, Frank Harris, Stephen Cheng (University of Akron)

R1.007 Charge Injection in Doped Organic Semiconductors

Ahmad Hosseini, Man Hoi Wong, Yulong Shen, George Malliaras (Cornell University)

R1.008 Study of Hydrolytic Ageing of Industrial Polypropylene by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Sylvain Massey, Denis Roy, Alain Adnot (Laboratoire de Physique Atomique et Moléculaire, Centre de Recherche sur les Propriétés des Interfaces et la Catalyse, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4)

R1.009 Relation between contact angles and formation of fog on polymer surfaces

Gabriela Grosu, Guy G. Ross, Gilles Abel, Lukasz Andrzejewski (INRS-Energie, Materiaux et Télecommunications, Varennes (Quebec), J3X 1S2)

R1.010 Adhesion of Topographically Patterned Elastomers

Mark Hageman, Andrew Duncan, Alfred Crosby (Dept. of Polymer Sci. amp; Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

R1.011 Synthesis and Surface Properties of Nitroxide Functionalized PS/PDMS Diblock Copolymers

Murat Guvendiren, Chi-Yang Chao, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University)

R1.012 Multigeneration buckling on model elastomeric surfaces

Kirill Efimenko, Jan Genzer (NC State University), Mindaugas Rackaitis, Evangelos Manias (Pennsylvania State University), L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

R1.013 Molecular Structure of Alkyl-Side-Chain Polymers at the Aqueous Interface

Hasnain Rangwalla, Alexander Schwab, Betul Yurdumakan, Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron), Dalia Yablon, Mohsen Yeganeh (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company)

R1.014 Molecular Structure of Alkyl-Side-Chain Polymers at the Aqueous Interface

Hasnain Rangwalla, Alexander Schwab, Betul Yurdumakan, Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron), Dalia Yablon, Mohsen Yeganeh (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company)

R1.015 Effect of low energy ion implantation on insulators

Mourad Yedji, Guy Ross (INRS-Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications)

R1.016 The Physics and Phenomenology of Solvent-Vapor Smoothing

Mitchell Anthamatten, Stephan A. Letts, Robert C. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

R1.017 A Novel Method to Make Breath Figure Patterns by Spin Coating under Dry Environment: One-step Preparation of Porous Polymer Films

Min Soo Park, Jin Kon Kim (Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

R1.018 Replace with abstract title

Daesik Park, Seongjun Kang, huijung Kim, Jungnam Whang (Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University), Surface and Interface physics laboratory Team

R1.019 Thermal Considerations in Surface Relief Grating Formation on Azobenzene Polymer Thin Films

Kevin Yager, Christopher Barrett (Department of Chemistry, McGill University)

R1.020 Investigation of Polymer Film Spin Casting: Solvent Properties that Create Optimal Film Quality and Use of Selective Solvents for Multilayered Films

Dave Ennis (North Carolina State University), Shane Harton (North Carolina State Unversity), Christopher Kloxin (North Carolina State University), Heike Betz, Ronald Danner (The Pennsylvania State University), Richard Spontak (North Carolina State Univeristy), Harald Ade (North Carolina State Univerisity)

R1.021 Combinatorial Investigation of Crazes in Polymer Nanocomposites

Jong-Young Lee, Alfred Crosby (Dept. of Polymer Sci. amp; Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

R1.022 Surface and Interface Induced Assembly of Nanoparticles in Polymer Blend Films

Ranjan Deshmukh, Hyun-joong Chung, Russell J. Composto (Materials Sci. and Eng. and LRSM, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19104), Kohji Ohno, Takeshi Fukuda (Inst. for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan)

R1.023 Electric Field-Induced Instabilities in Ionic Salt Doped Thin Liquid Films

Suresh Gupta, Thomas Russell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

R1.024 Thin Film Morphology of Homopolymer-Free PS-b-PMMA Diblock Copolymer

Insun Park, Soojin Park, Taihyun Chang, Byeongdoo Lee, Moonhor Ree (Chemistry - POSTECH), Hoichang Yang, Kilwon Cho (Chemical Engineering - POSTECH), Chang Yeol Ryu (Chemistry-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

R1.025 Dewetting of Polystyrene Films on Spin-On Glass

Rui Xiong, Oleg Stukalov, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

R1.026 PS/PMMA in Confinement A Novel Procedure to create Ultra-Thin Materials using Supercritical Fluids

John Jerome, Young-Soo Seo, Tadanori Koga, Davinder Mohajan, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook University), Mitchell Fourman (Ward Melville High School), Steve Schwartz (Queens College)

R1.027 The Effects of Surface Interactions and Density on the Crystallization of Polyethylene Thin Films

Yantian Wang, Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275)

R1.028 Substrate Surface Energy Dependent Rim Instability in Polystyrene Thin Film Dewetting

Sung-Hwan Choi (Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325-3906, USA), Bi-min Zhang Newby (Affiliation)

R1.029 Effect of kinetic reaction on the film growth and roughness: Aqueous solution of hydrophobic and polar components

Virgil Breeden, Dan Otts, Marek Urban, Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

R1.030 Ordered Thin Films of Partially Hydrogenated Polyisoprene Containing Block Copolymers

Kevin Cavicchi, Thomas Russell (UMASS-Amherst, Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering)

R1.031 Solvent-Induced Ordering in Diblock Copolymer/Homopolymer Mixutre Thin Film

Seung Hyun Kim, Mattew J. Misner, Thomas P. Russell (Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

R1.032 Molecular Motion Near the Glass Transition Temperature: a Comparison of Small Molecules and Polymers

Stephen Swallen, Osamu Urakawa, Mark Ediger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

R1.033 Surface Self-assembly of Poly(styrene-block-ferrocenyldimethylsilane) Langmuir-Blodgett Thin Films

Arielle Galambos (Wellesley College), Young-Soo Seo, Miriam Rafailovich (Mat. Sci. Eng., Stony Brook University), R. Lammertink (University of Twente, Faculty of Chemical Technology, The Netherlands)

R1.034 Hole Growth in Crosslinked Thin Polymer Films

Clive Li (Materials Science, Stony Brook Universtiy), Jean Harry Xavier, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Materials Science, Stony Brook University)

R1.035 Supression of Dewetting in Polystyrene Thin Films by Polymer Nanoparticles

Robert Briber, Hongxia Feng (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., University of Maryland), Victor Lee, Ho-Cheol Kim, Robert Miller (IBM Almaden Research Center)

R1.036 THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF TIPS PENTACENE

Jihua Chen, David Martin (Macromolecular Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), John Anthony (Department of Chemistry, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506), Anthony Group Team

R1.037 Diffusion of DNA during gel electrophoresis; a predictive function spanning the relevant regimes

Laurette McCormick, Gary Slater (University of Ottawa)

R1.038 Theory of Dynamic Barriers and the Glass Transition in Polymer Melts

Erica J. Saltzman, Kenneth S. Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

R1.039 Chromophore Conformation and Mobility in Green Fluorescent Protein Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Soumya Patnaik, Steven Trohalaki, Ruth Pachter (Air Force Research Laboratory)

R1.040 A Brownian Dynamics study of dense DNA brushes.

Jean-Francois Mercier, Gary W. Slater (University of Ottawa), Pascal Mayer (Manteia Predictive Medicine)

R1.041 Molecular Mechanics modelization of a self-assembled diblock copolymer system : the exemple of PS/PEO in ethanol and benzene

Mathieu Duchemin, Alain Gibaud, Florent Calvayrac (laboratoire PEC UMR 6087 Faculté des Sciences Université du Maine F-72085 Le Mans)

R1.042 Viscosity of random and alternating polyolefin copolymers – a small scale simulation approach

Sergiy Tkachuk, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (University of Akron, Department of Physics)

R1.043 Chaotic dynamics of a single polymer chain

Kerem Isik, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (University of Akron, Department of Physics)

R1.044 Analytical Model of Creeping Flow in a Rectangular Channel: Advection and Mixing

Miron Kaufman (Department of Physics, Cleveland State University)

R1.045 Understanding the temperature dependence of charge-carrier mobilities in organic polyacene crystals

Ravinder Abrol, Dennis Newns, Glenn Martyna (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

R1.046 Coarse Grain MD Simulations of the Formation of Polymer Nanocomposites

Barry Farmer, Kelly Anderson, Richard Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory)

R1.047 Simulation Study of a Polymer in Dilute Solution

James Polson, John Gallant, Neil Moore (Physics Department, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada)

R1.048 Packing and Entanglements in Polymer Melts

Rahmi Ozisik, Sandy S. Sternstein (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

R1.049 Capillary Waves, Chain Conformations, and Viscoelasticity at Sheared Blend Interfaces: DSCF - MD Comparison.

Yitzhak Shnidman (College of Staten Island, City University of New York), Tak Shing Lo (City College of New York, City University of New York), Maja Mihajlovic (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY), Dilip Gersappe, Wentao Li (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

R1.050 Highly Ordered Liquid Cryatal Defect patterns in a Confined Space

Myung Chul Choi, Mahn Won Kim ((1) Materials Research Laboratory, Materials Department, Physics Department, and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A. (2) Department of Physics, KAIST, Daejon 305-701, Korea), Thomas Pfohl ((1) Materials Research Laboratory, Materials Department, Physics Department, and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A. (2) Department of Applied Physics, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany), Zhiyu Wen (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China), Youli Li, Cyrus R. Safinya (Materials Research Laboratory, Materials Department, Physics Department, and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.)

R1.051 A Modeling study of azimuthal orientational correlations of anisotropic particles and its application to evolution of order in block copolymers

Ashoutosh Panday, Samuel Gido (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts,Amherst, MA 01003 (USA))

R1.052 Simulations of filled epoxy nanocomposites

Kelly Anderson, Ajit Roy, Richard Vaia, Barry Farmer (Air Force Research Laboratory)

R1.053 Breakdown of Dynamical Scaling for Dilute Polymer Solutions in 2D?

Emma Falck, Olli Punkkinen, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology), Ilpo Vattulainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology)

R1.054 MD Simulations of Layer-by-Layer Protein-Polyelectrolyte Self-Assembly

Venkateswarlu Panchagnula, Junhwan Jeon (Affiliation), Andrey V. Dobrynin (Polymer Program, University of Connecticut)

R1.055 Self-Assembled Semiconducting Block Copolymers for Efficient Photonic Devices

R. A. Segalman (Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley), U. Giovanella, C. Brochon, G. Hadziioannou (Ecole Européenne Chimie Polymères Matériaux, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)

R1.056 Formation of 2-D polymer photonic crystals via multi-wave interference technique

Scott Meng, Kyu Thein (The University of Akron)

R1.057 STM Studies of Thermal Reactions of Dibromobenzene at Si(111)

Sergey Dobrin, Rajamma Harikumar, Ioannis Petsalakis, John Polanyi, Giannoula Theodorakopoulos (University of Toronto)

R1.058 Structure and electrical properties of oriented of anthracene and pentacene thin films

Hua Zhou, Binran Wang, Lan Zhou, Randall Headrick (Department of Physics and Materials Science Program, University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405), Ricardo Ruiz, Alex Mayer, George Malliaras (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853), Alexander Kazimirov (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Ithaca, NY 14853)

R1.059 Helical Suprastructure Generated from Achiral 4-Biphenyl Carboxylic Acid Molecules via Hydrogen Bonding

Kwang-Un Jeong, Jason J. Ge, Shi Jin, Brian S. Knapp, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng (Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909)

R1.060 Nanoscopic Dot Arrays of Inorganic Oxide Semiconductors Templated by Block Copolymer Thin Films

Dong Ha Kim, Seung Hyun Kim, Kris Lavery, Thomas P. Russell (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

R1.061 STM Studies of Thermal Reactions of Dibromobenzene at Si(111)

Sergey Dobrin, Rajamma Harikumar, Ioannis Petsalakis, John Polanyi, Giannoula Theodorakopoulos (University of Toronto)

R1.062 Intrinsic Viscosity of Dendrimers via Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics

Phil Drew, David Adolf (IRC in Polymer Science and Technology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK)

R1.063 The Effect of Salts on the Conformation and Microstructure of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) in Aqueous Solution

Yachin Cohen, Elena Krasovitski, Havazelet Bianco-Peled (Chemical Engineering Dept., Technion, Israel)

R1.064 Rheo-dielectric Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide) Melts Containing Lithium Perchlorate

Hiroshi Watanabe, Yumi Matsumiya (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University), Nitash Balsara (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley), John Kerr (Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Emest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

R1.065 Structure and Mechanical Property Modifications by Blending Alkyl Carboxylate Salts into Ethylene-co-(Meth)Acrylic Acid Ionomers

Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Richard A. Register (Princeton University)

R1.066 Defect generation on corrugated topographies

Vitelli Vincenzo, Nelson David (Harvard University)

R1.067 Flame-Retardant PMMA/Clay Nanocomposites

Mayu Si, Gregory Rudomen, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook University)

R1.068 Stretching polymers in poor and bad solvents: Pullout peaks and an unraveling transition

Ira Cooke, David Williams (Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA)

R1.069 Degree of Mechanochemical Devulcanization of Model Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Compounds Containing Different Amount of Poly-, Di- and Monosulphidic Bonds

Samra Sangari (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Hill Anita (CSIRO Manufacturing amp; Infrastructure Technology), Pavel Dumitru (Department of Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland)

R1.070 Design of Selective Gas Permeable Membrane Using Supercritical Fluids

Tadanori Koga (SUNY at Stony Brook), Aryeh Reinstein (Rambam Mesivta High School), Mordechai Bronner (Yale University), Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov, Benjamin Chu (SUNY at Stony Brook)

R1.071 Biological Physics

R1.072 Nanodosimetry of Low Energy (0.1 - 100 eV) Cation Damage to DNA

L. Sellami, F. Martin, D. Hunting, S. Lacombe, M. A. Huels (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)

R1.073 The Electrophoretic Mobility of Proteins near Surfaces

Perumal Ramasamy (DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, SUNY STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, NY 11790), Avtar Singh (Stuyvesant High School), Miriam Rafailovich, JONATHAN SOKOLOV (GARCIA CENTER FOR POLYMERS AT ENGINEERED SURFACES, DEPT OF MATERAILS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING , SUNY STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY, NY 11790)

R1.074 Determination of Fe-CO bond energy in Myoglobin by transient grating spectroscopy

Raicu V. (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, Canada), Walther M. (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg, Germany), Ogilvie J. P., Phillips R., Miller R.J.D. (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, Canada)

R1.075 Reversible Folding of Lysozyme by a Quasi-static Process: A First-Order-Like State Transition

Yeh Xu-Cheng, Lin Po-Yen, Chang Chia-Ching (Department of Physics, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan), Kan Lou-Sing (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan)

R1.076 Motif analysis and correlation functions of amino acids in nonredundant protein sequences.

Mihaela Sardiu, Yi-Kuo Yu (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University and NCBI, NIH)

R1.077 Self-assembly and dissociation of collagen monomer: Temperature and ion effects

Alex Dickson, Lancia Guo, Darren Anderson, Darcy Gentleman, Cynthia Goh (University of Toronto)

R1.078 Low Energy Electron Interactions with Uracil: the Energetics predicted by theory

Xifeng Li, Léon Sanche (Université de Sherbrooke), Michael Sevilla (Oakland University), PES Collaboration

R1.079 Diffusion, Dispersion, and Mobility of Single-stranded DNA in Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

Roger Lo, Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University)

R1.080 NEAR ZERO eV SUBEXCITATION ENERGY ELECTRONS BREAK DNA

Frederic Martin, Zhongli Cai, Pierre Cloutier, Darel Hunting, Leon Sanche (Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Faculty of medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (QC), Canada, J1H 5N4)

R1.081 Surface Electrophoresis on Flat and Patterned Conducting Surfaces

Eli Hoory (SUNY Stony Brook), Saumya Sharma (Ward Melville High School), Stanley Chiang (Great Neck High School), John Jerome, Vladimir Samuliov, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (SUNY Stony Brook)

R1.082 Vibrational and electronic excitations of H_2O on a thin film of thymine by electron impact and comparison with H_2O on Ar

Wonseok Cho, Marc Michaud, Léon Sanche (Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Québec, Canada J1H 5N4)

R1.083 DNA Adsorption Kinetics in Evaporating Droplets

Xiaohua Fang, Bingquan Li (SUNY@stony brook), Yong Chen, Chwen-Yang Shew (CUNY@Staten Island), V.A Samuilov (SUNY@stony brook), Y.-S. Seo (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Joseph Baron (Case Western Reserve University), J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich (SUNY@stony brook)

R1.084 Infrared Absorption Study of Cytidine and Deoxycytidine at High Pressures

Ian Lawson, Scott Lee (Univ. of Toledo), A. Anderson, L. Lettress (Univ. of Waterloo)

R1.085 Anomalous Swelling in Wet-Spin Films of Divalent Calf-Thymus DNA

R.L. Marlowe (Un. of Tennessee at Chattanooga), S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (Un. of Stockholm)

R1.086 Low-frequency Raman Difference Spectroscopy of A- and B-DNA in Wet-Spin Films

Scott Lee (Un. of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (Un. of Stockholm)

R1.087 Morse Parameters of the Intramolecular NH_2 Bond in Adenine and Cytosine

Megan Schwenker, Scott Lee (Un. of Toledo)

R1.088 Low-frequency Raman spectroscopy of netropsin in solution

A. Anderson (Un. of Waterloo), S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo)

R1.089 Strand breaks of dry DNA deposited on tantalum induced by ultrasoft X-rays (1.5 keV): contribution from photons and secondary electrons

Zhongli Cai, Pierre Cloutier, Darel Hunting, Leon Sanche (Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1H 5N4, Canada)

R1.090 Multiple light scattering effects and their manifestation in conformational memory effects of membrane-bound photosynthetic Reaction Centers

Anthony J. Manzo, Alexander O. Goushcha, Gary W. Scott (Chemistry Department, University of California, Riverside)

R1.091 Energy Transfer during Induced Transitions: A Double-Well Chain Model

Caroline Ritz-Gold (Center for Biomolecular Studies)

R1.092 Functional Micro-Domains of Glycolipids with Partially Fluorinated Membrane Anchors Impact on Cell Adhesion

Doris Heinrich, Matthias Schneider, Laurent Limozin, Motomu Tanaka (Phys. Dept., Tech. Univ. Muenchen, 85748 Garching, Germany)

R1.093 Phase-Specific Diffusivity of DPPG Monolayers

Joel DeWitt, Prem Thapa, Bret Flanders (Oklahoma State University)

R1.094 Interfacial Properties of Antimicrobial Compounds and Their Interactions With Phospholipid Monolayers and Membranes

Ana Claudia Costa, Dahui Liu, Sungwook Choi, William DeGrado (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania)

R1.095 Production of Cubic Phases in Phospholipid and PEG-Lipid Mixtures

David Wolfe (Lycoming College), Beth Cunningham (Bucknell University), Patrick Williams (King's College London)

R1.096 Dynamic Light Scattering Microscope

Jonathan Celli, Brian Gregor (Department of Physics, Boston University)

R1.097 Experimental Study of the Dynamics of Ant Search Paths

D. J. Slomski, S. M. Covert, G. W. Baxter (Physics Department, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)

R1.098 Analysis of PCR Thermocycling by Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Ruchi Sharma, Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University)

R1.099 Pumping and Thermocycling in Closed-loop Convective Flow Systems

Nitin Agrawal, Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University)

R1.100 Effect of Planning on Trunk Motion and Knee Moments During a Side Step Cut Task

Jeff Houck (Ithaca College), Stacey Gorniak (PSU-Erie), Kristen Nicholson (Ithaca College)

R1.101 Demonstration of very-low-magnetic-field MRI of human lungs

R. Mair, M. Rosen, L. Tsai, J. Ng, R. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian), M. Hrovat, S. Patz, G. Topulos (Brigham and Women's Hospital), F. Hersman, I. Ruset (U. New Hampshire)

R1.102 Analysis of Myoglobin Adsorption to Cu(II)-IDA and Ni(II)-IDA Functionalized Langmuir Monolayers by Grazing Incidence Neutron and X-ray Techniques

Michael Kent, Hyun Yim, Darryl Sasaki (Sandia National Laboratories), Sushil Satija (National Institutes of Standards and Technology), Jaroslaw Majewski (Los Alamos National Laboraory), Thomas Gog (Argonne National Laboratories)

R1.103 BRUSH TRANSITION OF SULFONATED IONOMER MONOLAYERS AT THE AIR/WATER INTERFACE

Farhan Ahmad, Kwanwoo Shin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea), Sushil Satija (National Insitute of Science and Technology), Miriam Rafailovich, John Sokolov (Stony Brook University), Jung Soo Lee, Chang-Hee Lee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)

R1.104 A simulation model of biofilms with autonomous cells: analysis of a two-dimensional version

Yergou Tatek, Gary Slater (University of Ottawa)

R1.105 Deciphering Biochemical Network: from particles to planes then to spaces

Xinhao Ye, Siliang Zhang (Department of Biochemical Engineering, East China Univ. of Sci. amp; Tech., Shanghai, China), National Engineer Research Center for Biotechnology(Shanghai) Team

R1.106 Base-flipping simulated with an implicit solvent model

Jason Grigsby, Jr. Salsbury (Wake Forest University)

R1.107 A theoretical study of a blue fluorescent antibody and trans-stilbene

Jr. Salsbury (Wake Forest University), Wen-Ge Han, Louis Noodleman, III Brooks (The Scripps Research Institute)

R1.108 Network Rigidity Calculations of Cold Denaturation

Gregory Wood, Donald Jacobs (Physics and Astronomy Department, California State University, Northridge CA 91330)

R1.109 Shannon Information in Complete Genomes

Li-Ching Hsieh, Chang-Heng Chang (Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 320), Hoong-Chien Lee (Department of Physics and Department of Life Science, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 320)

R1.110 Direct reduction of hydrogen peroxides into hydroxyl ions in peroxide-based fuel cell

Nie Luo, George H. Miley (Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il, 61821 USA), D.W. Noid (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

R1.111 Modeling the static and dynamic elastic properties of microtubules

Stephanie Portet (SLRI, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada), Jack Tuszynski (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada), John Dixon (Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK)

R1.112 Anomalous diffusion in living yeast cells

Iva Marija Tolic-NØrrelykke, Emilia-Laura Munteanu (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Genevieve Thon (Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen), Lene Oddershede, Kirstine Berg-SØrensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

R1.113 Effect of Polybutadiene on Human Dermal Fibroblasts proliferation

Kelly Gloor (Dartmouth University), Tedi Setton (Wellsley University), Joshua Levine (Columbia University), Shouren Ge, E Guan, Lourdes Collazo, Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook University)

R1.114 Effect of three distinct recombinant cell-binding domains of FN (rCDFN) and substrate crosslinking density on the morphology and dynamics of Human Dermal Fibroblast cells

K Ghosh (SUNY, Stony Brook), XZ Shu (Univ. of Utah), S Ge, X Fang, M Rafailovich (SUNY, Stony Brook), GD Prestwich (Univ. of Utah), RAF Clark (SUNY, Stony Brook)

R1.115 Statistical and Non-Linear Physics and Fluids

R1.116 Watering Silicon Nanograss: How to Get Droplets to Roll or Stick on Demand

Ashley Taylor, Tobias Schneider, Shu Yang, Tom Krupenkin (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

R1.117 Crystal Structure and Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile

Elizabeth Baker, D.T. Jacobs (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

R1.118 A Practical Kinetic Theory for Granular Gases

James W. Dufty (Affiliation), Aparna Baskaran (Department of Physics, University of Florida), Lorena Zogaib (Departamento de Matematicas,Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)

R1.119 Localized structures in number conserving cellular automata

Henryk Fuks (Brock University)

R1.120 Self Organization in Compensated Semiconductors

Alexander A. Berezin (McMaster U.)

R1.121 Excitation wave dynamics in a chemical system with an anomalous dispersion relation

Niklas Manz, Brent T. Ginn, Oliver Steinbock (Florida State University, Dept. of Chem. and Biochem., Physical Chemistry)

R1.122 Three examples of prelude phase-locking staircases to type V intermittency

Yingmei Wang, Wenxiu Wang, Xu Ming Wang, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.123 A model of kicked billiard

Wenxiu Wang, Jun Dai, Qijuan Chen, Xuefang Han, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.124 An escape from a fat fractal

Ying Shen (Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yue He, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.125 Accelerator mode quantum chaos experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates

Gil Summy, Peyman Ahmadi, Brian Timmons (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University)

R1.126 Periodic Orbits in Three Body Gravitational Chaotic Scattering

Greg McIvor, Robert Gilmore, Stephen L.W. McMillan (Drexel University)

R1.127 Differentiating between strange attractors of equivalent genus type.

Greg Byrne, Robert Gilmore (Drexel University), Christophe Letellier (Université de Rouen)

R1.128 Nontrivial dynamics of two interacting point particles confined to a sphere

Katherine Olaksen, Nicholas Johann Harmon, John F. Lindner (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

R1.129 Sedimentation in a Confined Geometry with finite Reynolds number

Esa Kuusela, Jukka Lahtinen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Brown University)

R1.130 Bretherton Flow in a Finite Cavity

Kevin Cissner (Air Force Research Laboratories), Robert Schueler, Becker Roger (Affiliation)

R1.131 Bubble Roughening Near Boundaries

Robert Schueler (Air Force Research Laboratories), Kevin Cissner, Roger Becker

R1.132 How Simple Can a Micromixer Be?

Abraham Stroock, Greg McGraw (School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University), Eric Lauga, Howard Stone (Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University)

R1.133 Dynamics of Electrically Induced Jets

Tanvir Rahman, Robert Moore (Dept. of Physics, McGill)

R1.134 Molecular Structure and Order of a Banana Mesogen by means of 13C and 2H NMR

Valentina Domenici (Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Universita di Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, 56126, Italy, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27514 NC, USA), Carlo Alberto Veracini (Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Universita di Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, 56126, Italy), Ronald Y Dong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, Canada R7A 6A9)

R1.135 Optically induced orientational instabilities driven by spin angular momentum transfer of light in nematic liquid crystals

E. Brasselet, T. V. Galstian, L. J. Dubé (Département de Physique, de Génie Physique, et d'Optique, Université Laval, Cité Universitaire, Québec, Canada G1K7P4), D. O. Krimer, L. Kramer (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany)

R1.136 Dielectric Anisotropy of Nematic Binary Mixtures

Kathleen McCreary, Shila Garg (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

R1.137 Relaxation of 2D diffusion-limited aggregates: Monte Carlo simulations

Carlos I. Mendoza (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-360, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico), Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago (Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, 0100 México, D.F., Mexico)

R1.138 Experimental Study of Drainage in Aqueous Foams

Alfredo Cervantes (Departamento de Investigacion en Polimeros y Materiales, Universidad de Sonora. Mexico), Arnaud Saint-Jalmes (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite de Paris XI.), Amir Maldonado (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora. Mexico), Dominique Langevin (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite de Paris XI. France)

R1.139 An Electric Bottle for Colloids

M.T. Sullivan, K. Zhao, A.D. Hollingsworth, W.B. Russel, P.M. Chaikin (Princeton University)

R1.140 Microfluidic colloidal reactors

Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, Abraham Stroock (Cornell University)

R1.141 Cluster autocorrelation and distribution in amphiphilic self-assembly: effect of geometry

Vincent Maycock, Aniket Bhattacharya (University of Central Florida)

R1.142 Microfluidic binary phase flow

Dan Angelescu (Schlumberger-Doll Research), Laure Menetrier (ESPCI, Paris France), Joyce Wong (Schlumberger-Doll Research), Patrick Tabeling (ESPCI, Paris France), Philippe Salamitou (Schlumberger-Doll Research)

R1.143 Comparison of Wulff Shapes of Cylindrical Domains Growing at Homogenous and Heterogenous Nucleation Sites in Lamellar Block Copolymer Homopolymer Blends

Sam Gido, Engin Burgaz (Dep. of Polymer Science and Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

R1.144 A self-adaptive description to actor-collaboration network

Yumei Jiang, Tian Xu, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.145 Search for function coefficient distribution in traditional Chinese medicine network

Yue He, Peipei Zhang, Anzheng Sun, Beibei Su, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.146 Leadership Statistics in Random Trees and Random Graphs

Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul Krapivsky (Boston University)

R1.147 Competition-driven Network Dynamics: Emergence of a Scale-free Leadership Structure and Collective Efficiency

Marian Anghel, Zoltan Toroczkai (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kevin Bassler (University of Houston), George Korniss (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

R1.148 Self-organized phase segregation in a driven flow of immiscible system: interacting lattice gas computer simulation

Luis Cueva-Parra, Ray Seyfarth (University of Southern Mississippi), Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi and Naval Research Laboratory), Joe Gettrust (Naval Research Laboratory)

R1.149 A complex network description on traditional Chinese medicine system

Anzheng Sun, Peipei Zhang, Yue He, Beibei Su, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.150 A network description on geometry and economics of Yangtze drainage area

Binbin Wang, Tian Xu, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.151 An investigation on Chinese skyway network

XiangYang Zhu, Yue He, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.152 Honeybee society destruction by losing control of self-reproduction

Peipei Zhang, Beibei Su, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.153 A cellular automata model of SARS epidemic spreading

Tian Xu, Peipei Zhang, Beibei Su, Yumai Jiang, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.154 A network description on touristry in China

Yiyong Zhang, Yue He, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.155 Network description on Chinese power grid

Jie Chen, Tian Xu, Yue He, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.156 Railway network in China

Juan Hu, Peipei Zhang, Rong Qiu, Jiying Tang, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.157 A model simulating food recruitments of ants

Guizhi Liu, Tian Xu, Da-Ren He (College of Physics, Yangzhou University, China)

R1.158 Multifractal features in stock and foreign exchange markets

Kyungsik Kim (Department of Physics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea), Seong-Min Yoon (Division of Economics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, Korea)

R1.159 Numerical simulation of vehicular traffic for non-ideal drivers.

Laura Domínguez, Carlos Amador (Facultad de Química, UNAM)

R1.160 The movement patterns of a generic walker in a complex landscape

Sheldon Opps, Michael Arthurs, Marina Silva (University of Prince Edward Island)

R1.161 Numerical solution of Fokker-Planck equation with different approximations for e-e collisions: Application to electron heat flow in plasmas

Fathallah Alouani Bibi, Jean-Pierre Matte (INRS-EMT, Université du Québec, Varennes, Québec, Canada), Magdi Shoucri (Institut de Recherche en Électricité du Québec, Varennes, Québec, Canada)

R1.162 The pinning transition of the quenched Kardar Parisi Zhang equation

Jin Min Kim, Changhan Lee (Soongsil University)

R1.163 Synthesis of Gallium Nitride Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Chris S. Kopech (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0264), Xihong Chen (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 100871), Dapeng Yu (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 100871)

R1.164 Transition rate over a fluctuating barrier in a mechanical system

Jennifer Mae Goin, John Asay, O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim (Department of Physics, University of Portland, Portland OR 97203)

R1.165 Quantum Stochastic Resonance in the Strong Field Limit

Ke Dong (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801), Nancy Makri (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

R1.166 Molecular dynamics study on the dislocation loops in FCC metals

Tomoko Kadoyoshi (c), Hideo Kaburaki, Futoshi Shimizu (Center for Promotion of Computational Science and Engineering Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Hajime Kimizuka (Energy and Environment Technology Department The Japan Research Institute)

R1.167 Molecular dynamics simulation on the three dimensional grain boundary fracture patterns in the FCC nanocrystals

Futoshi Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Itakura, Hideo Kaburaki (Center for Promotion of Computational Science and Engineering, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Hajime Kimizuka (Energy and Environment Technology Department, The Japan Research Institute Limited)

R1.168 Crescent Singularities in Crumpled Sheets

Tao Liang, Thomas Witten (Dept of Physics and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago)

R1.169 Fracture in a Brittle Disordered Material: Continuous or First Order?

L.C. Krysac (Department of Physics, University of the Pacific)

R1.170 Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy

R1.171 Optimal preamplifier/drive configuration for Tuning Fork force signal detection

CL Jahncke, KJ Fellows, O Brandt (St. Lawrence University), HD Hallen (North Carolina State University)

R1.172 High-bandwidth analysis of force signals in vacuum Atomic Force Microscopy

Sabine Maier, Laurent Nony, Adrian Wetzel, Oliver Pfeiffer, Enrico Gnecco, Anisoara Socoliuc, Ernst Meyer (Institute of Physics, University of Basel), Roland Bennewitz (Department of Physics, McGill University)

R1.173 Microscopic Techniques (including scanning)

R1.174 Developing Scanning Nano-Raman Spectroscopy

Disha Mehtani, N.H. Lee, R. Hartschuh, A. Kisliuk, M. Duda, A. Sokolov, M.D. Foster (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron), J. Maguire Collaboration

R1.175 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Posters

R1.176 Loss of coherence in few-boson systems

Emil Lundh (Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology)

R1.177 Reduced-Density-Matrix Descriptions for Coherent Electromagnetic Interactions in Quantized Many-Electron Systems

Verne Jacobs (Naval Research Laboratory)

R1.178 Optical-lattice-induced effects in ultracold atomic collisions

Eric L. Bolda, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne (Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg), Rene Stock, Ivan H. Deutsch (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque)

R1.179 Spinor Dynamics in All-Optical Rb-87 condensates

Christopher Hamley, Ming-Shien Chang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Murray Barrett (NIST Boulder), Jacob Sauer, Kevin Fortier, Michael Chapman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

R1.180 Progress toward achieving a degenerate Fermi gas in a microchip trap

M. Extavour, S. Aubin (University of Toronto), S. Singh (McMaster University), P. Scrutton, R. Bolen, J. H. Thywissen (University of Toronto)

R1.181 Short-Time Decoherence for General System-Environment Interactions.

Denis Tolkunov, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology, Clarkson University)

R1.182 Post-mortem investigations of fracture surfaces of glasses at the nanometer scale

Claude Guillot, Silke Prades, Daniel Bonamy, Davy Dalmas, Elisabeth Bouchaud (CEA Saclay, DSM/DRECAM/SPCSI/Groupe Fracture, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France)

R1.183 Eigenmodes of a Coulomb Chain in a Harmonic Potential

Shmuel Fishman (Dep. of Physics, Techion, 32000 Haifa, Israel), Giovanna Morigi (Dep. of Physics, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany)

R1.184 Theoretical study of the generalized oscillator strength densities of helium doubly excited states

Yan Jun, Yao Jian-Hong (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, P.R. China)

R1.185 Laser-assisted electron capture and emission in slow proton-hydrogen collisions.

Thomas Niederhausen, Bernold Feuerstein, Uwe Thumm (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

R1.186 Photoionzation of atoms under the influence of plasma environments*

Li-Bo Zhao, Yew Kam Ho (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

R1.187 STM observation of porphyrin derivatives on metal substrates

Toshifumi Terui (Communications Research Laboratory), Toshiya Kamikado, Yoshishige Okuno, Shinro Mashiko, Yutaka Wakayama (National Institute for Materials Science), Takeharu Sekiguchi

R1.188 "Soft-Landed" (0.5 - 500 eV) Ion-Beam Studies of Atomic and Molecular Ion Damage to Thymine Films

M. Imhoff, Z. Deng, M. A. Huels (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)

R1.189 Electron emission yields from condensed targets following 2-MeV H^+ impact.

C I Christou, J L Shinpaugh, E L B Justiniano, M Dingfelder, L H Toburen (East Carolina University, Physics Dept.)

R1.190 Effects of the surface Miller index on the resonant neutralization of H^- near Ag surfaces

Himadri Chakraborty, Thomas Niederhausen, Uwe Thumm (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502)

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R1.194 Post-Deadline

R1.195 Ab initio study of field emission currents of W surfaces

Huang S. F., Leung T. C. (Department of Physics, National Cheng Chung University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan), Che J. G. (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shan Hai, China), Chan C. T. (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.)

R1.196 Fabrication of Nanoscale Oxide Aperture under the Influence of Electron Beam Exposure

M.Y. Jung, D.W. Kim (SunMoon University), Seong S Choi (Sunmoon University)

R1.197 Collective stochastic resonance and shear-induced melting in the relative sliding of two interacting layers of particles

Moumita Das (Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, INDIA), G. Ananthakrishna (Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 INDIA), Sriram Ramaswamy (Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, INDIA)

R1.198 Flow-induced current and voltage generation in carbon nanotubes

Shankar Ghosh, A Sood, S Ramaswamy (Department of Physics, IIsc, Bangalore-560012, India), N Kumar (C.V. Raman Avenue,Bangalore 560 080, India)

R1.199 Metal-Insulator Transition Phenomena in (La, Sr)TiO3 Thin Films

Bertrand Vilquin, Teruo Kanki, Takeshi Yanagida, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tomoji Kawai (ISIR-Osaka University-Japan)

R1.200 Reverse Gelation of Associative Network Polymers

H Henning Winter (University of Massachusetts Amherst MA, USA), Prashant Mandare Collaboration, Roland Horst Collaboration

R1.201 Control of Superconducting Properties by Dielectric Polarization in Field-Effect Transistors

Natalia Pavlenko, Thilo Kopp, Ulrich Eckern (Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg)

R1.202 Micromechanics of Self-Assembling Peptides

Thierry Savin, Patrick Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA)

R1.203 High Surface Area Conducting Polymer Composites for Hydrogen Storage

Anna Gutowska, Barbara Tarasevich, Yongsoon Shin, Kim Ferris, John Linehan (Affiliation), James White (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99252)

R1.204 Temperature dependence of carrier mobility in low to highly degenerate InN films

D. B. Haddad, H. Dai, R. Naik (Wayne State University), V. M. Naik (University of Michigan-Dearborn), J. S. Thakur, L. Rimai, G. W. Auner (Wayne State University), H. Lu, W. J. Schaff (Cornell University)

R1.205 Muon spin relaxation and local magnetic fields in superconducting PrOs_4Sb_12

D. E. MacLaughlin, Lei Shu, A. Bosse (U. Calif.\ Riverside), J. E. Sonier, F. Callaghan (Simon Fraser University), R. H. Heffner, G. D. Morris (Los Alamos), W. M. Yuhasz, N. A. Frederick, M. B. Maple (U. Calif.\ San Diego)

R1.206 Acceleration through passive destabilization: protein folding in a weak hydrophobic environment

Andrew Jewett (Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara), Andrij Baumketner, Joan-Emma Shea (Department of Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara)

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R1.208 Deformation of Amorphous Metal Alloy Fe80B20, in Conditions of Linear Heating

oleg beloshov, valeri abramov

R1.209 Modeling Deception in a Visual Two-Stimulus Paradigm as a Two-State System

Michael Schillaci, Jennifer Vendemia, Robert Buzan (University of South Carolina)

R1.210 Dephasing of solid-state qubits at optimal points

Yuriy Makhlin (University of Karlsruhe, Germany and Landau Institute, Russia), Alexander Shnirman (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

R1.211 Field-Induced Magnetic Transition of ErNi_2B_2C System

W.C. LEE (Dept. of Phys. Sookmyung Women's Univ. Seoul Korea)

R1.212 Raman scattering study of phonons in Bi-based superconductor thin films

Concepción Mejía-García (Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México 07738 D.F.), José Luis López-López (Departamento de Matemática Educativa, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México 07300 D.F.), Elvia Díaz-Valdés, Gerardo Contreras-Puente (Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México 07738 D.F.), Milan Jergel (Departamento de Física, CINVESTAV-IPN 07300 México D.F.)

R1.213 On the Helix-Coil Transition of Wormlike Polymers

Vikas Varshney, Taner Dirama, Gustavo Carri (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909)

R1.214 Film delamination dynamics and blister growth.

philippe Peyla (LPMMC, Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble - France)

R1.215 Magnetization Reversal by Spin-polarized Current in Magnetic Fields in Co/Cu/Co Pillars

Jun H. Kong, Seongsoo Kim, Yun D. Park, Kookrin Char (School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea)

R1.216 Bilayer Incorporated Influenza A M2 Single Molecule Time-Dependent AFM Studies

Travis Hughes, Strongin Bradley, Robert Davis (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University), Viksita Vijayvergiya, David Busath (Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology , Brigham Young University)

R1.217 Successes and Predictions of A Pseudopotential Approach in Anion-Mixed Nitrides

Ahmad Alsaad (Physics Department,Jordan university of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan), Laurent Bellaiche (Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA)

R1.218 Nanophase separation in side chain polymers and the dynamics in self-assembled confinements

Mario Beiner (FB Physik, Universität Halle, 06099 Halle, Germany)

R1.219 Adsorption Isotherm Studies of Methyl Bromide on MgO

Teresa Burns (Coastal Carolina University), John Larese (University of Tennesee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

R1.220 Composite fermion observation in quantum Hall effect

Keshav Shrivastava (Univ. Hyderabad, India)

R1.221 A study of Etching Process by oxygen on Si(001) surface using STM

Hangil Lee (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), Hanchul Kim Team, Jayong Koo Team

R1.222 The pressure effect on the superconductivity of the alkaline earth copper oxyhalide compound

C.Q JIN, Q.Q LIU, Y YU, Z.X LIU, F.Y LI, R.C YU (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, P. R. China)

R1.223 Orientational Dynamics of Water

David Shelton (Physics Department, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

R1.224 An Integrated AFM/Raman Tool for Local Stress Measurements of MEMs Devices

Rima Dekhther, Noel Axelrod, Artium Khatchatouriants, Aaron Lewis (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

R1.225 Neutron Time-of-Flight Diffractometer HIPPO at LANSCE

Sven Vogel, Darrick Williams, Yusheng Zhao, Kristin Bennett (Los Alamos National Lab), Bob Von Dreele (IPNS Division, Argonne National Laboratory), Hans-Rudolf Wenk (Dept. Geology and Geophysics, U.C. Berkeley, CA 94720), Experimental Collaboration, Consulting Collaboration, Data Processing Collaboration

R1.226 Laser Cooling of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Tzveta Apostolova (AFRL)

R1.227 Magnetic Phase Transition of DyNi_2B_2C

W. C. LEE (Dept. of Phys. Sookmyung Women's Univ. Seoul Korea)

R1.228 Vibrational spectra of non-ideal 1D structures under random Gaussian external field

Maria Mamalui, Chien-Yueh Huang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

R1.229 Efficient Photorefractive Effect in ZnMgSe/ZnSe Quantum Wells

Suvranta Tripathy, Hans-Peter Wagner (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221)

R1.230 Imaging of Extremely-Large Planar Polymer Light-Emitting Devices

Justin Dane, Jun Gao (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada)

R1.231 Synthesis of Polyaniline Nanofibers by “Nanofiber Seeding”

Xinyu Zhang, Warren J. Goux, Sanjeev K. Manohar (Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA)

R1.232 Scaling in force spectroscopy of biological molecules

Cristiano Dias (McGill University), Martin Dube, Martin Grant

R1.233 Study of the spatial fluctuations of a surviving particle interacting with mobile traps

Lucian Anton, Alan J Bray (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K.)

R1.234 Responsive behavior of mixed polymer brushes

Sergiy Minko (Department of Chemistry, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810), Marcus Mueller (Institut für Physik, WA 331, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, D-55099 Mainz, Germany), Manfred Stamm (Institute for Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Strasse 6, Dresden 01069, Germany)

R1.235 Coherent dynamics of two coupled quantum systems

Irinel Chiorescu, Patrice Bertet (TU Delft, NL), Kouichi Semba (NTT Japan), Yasunobu Nakamura (NEC Japan), Kees Harmans, Hans Mooij (TU Delft, NL)

R1.236 Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers of Ionomer/Oligomer Heterografts

Qing Lu, C.Geraldine Bazuin (Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3J7)

R1.237 The differential equation of classical instability of the asymptotic-suction boundary-layer: relating exact solutions to uniform asymptotic approximations

John Russell (Florida Institute of Technology)

R1.238 Phase retriaval from speckle patterns of phase-ordering systems

David Montiel, Mark Sutton, Martin Grant (Department of Physics, McGill University)

R1.239 CONDUCTIVITY OF INSULATOR AT HIGH FIELDS

Dr.Anil Kumar Sinha (Chief Co-ordinator,Dr.A.K.Sinha Research Institute of Physics,Patna,India,55/60,Officers' Flat,Bailey Road,Patna-800001,India)

R1.240 Relation of electric and magnetic phases in diluted magnetic semiconductor, (Zn_1-xFe_x)O : Cu

Jeong Hyun Shim, Taesoon Hwang, Soonchil Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Seung-Jin Han (Pohang University of Science and Techonogy)

R1.241 Cooper pair wavefunction approach to the DC Josephson effect

Yong-Jihn Kim (University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Bilkent University)

R1.242 Examinations in a sample magneto-optic polarimeter

Juan Carlos López, Victor Fajer (Center of Applied Technologies and Nuclear Development), Carmen Valdés (National Institute of Research in Metrology), Luis Mora, Humberto Fernández, Justo Ravelo (Center of Applied Technology and Nuclear Development), Nelson Serralta (National Institute of Research in Metrology)

R1.243 Effect of coupling line design on the performance of direct coupled high-Tc SQUID magnetometers

In Seon Kim, Kwon Kyu Yu, Yong Ki Park (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)

R1.244 Magnetoresistance Measurements of Nanofabricated Ferromagnetic Manganites

R. Dumoulin, P. Morales, M. DiCiano, J.Y.T. Wei (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

R1.245 One-dimensional Density Functional Theory for Contact-Interacting Fermions

Kieron Burke (Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology), Rudolph Magyar (Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division)

R1.246 Complex Nanomaterials: Multilayer Coating of Nanowires

H. Han, D. Zhang, J. Wei, R. Padmanabhan, A. Alkhateeb, R. Badri, D.N. McIlroy (Physics Department, University of Idaho), A.D. LaLonde, M.G. Norton (Materials Science and Engineering, Washington State University), Materials Science and Engineering Collaboration

R1.247 The Effect of Step-Step Spacing on Adatom Diffusion on Stepped Cu Surfaces

Sondan Durukanoðlu (Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey), Oleg Trushin (Institute of Microelectronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavl 150007, Russia), Talat Rahman (Department of Physics, Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA)

R1.248 Analysis of Al Content in AlxGa1-xN Via X-ray Diffraction and Rutherford Backscattering

Derek Wissmiller (Department of Physics at Illinois State University), Yu Lu, Guoyi Zhang (School of Physics at Peking University)

R1.249 Pr4f occupancy and VB/CB band offsets of Pr2O3 / Si(001)

Dieter Schmeisser (BTU Cottbus), H.-J. Muessig (IHP Frankfurt/Oder), BESSY Team

R1.250 Low temperature magnetoresistance of CeRu2Si2

Ramzy Daou, Christoph Bergemann, Stephen R. Julian (Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

R1.251 Intra and intermolecular interactions, conformation of adsorbed polymers, helix-coil , transition under stretching, What can we learn from force measurements ?

Mounir MAALOUM (Université Louis Pasteur-Institut Charles Sadron), Raphael LÉVY (School of Biological Sciences Liverpool)

R1.252 Sharpening of a Field Ion Microscope (FIM) Tungsten Tip by the Controlled Interaction of Nitrogen with the Tip Surface Atoms

Moh'd Rezeq, Robert Wolkow, Jason Pitters (National Institute for Nanotechnology, NRC, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2V4)

R1.253 Model of a molecular motor with elastically attached external load

Konstantin Zeldovich, Jean-Francois Joanny, Jacques Prost (UMR 168, Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France)

R1.254 Electronic structural change of (Sr,Ca)_2RuO_4 studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Han-Jin Noh (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea), S.-J. Oh (School of Physics amp; CSCMR, SNU, Seoul, South Korea), B.-G. Park, J.-H. Park (Dep. of Phys., POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea), T. Mizokawa (Dep. of Complexity Science and Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen (NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan), S. Nakatsuji, H Fukazawa, Y. Maeno (Dep. of Phys., Kyoto Univ. Kyoto, Japan)

R1.255 Far-infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Measurements of Mn12-acetate.

Jiufeng Tu, Yoko Suzuki, K. M. Mertes, M. P. Sarachik (City College of New York), N. I. Agladze, A. J. Sievers (Cornell University), E. M. Rumberger, D. N. Hendrickson (University of California at San Diego), G. Christou (University of Florida at Gainesville)

R1.256 Neutron Reflectivity Study of Lipid Membranes Assembled on Ordered Nanocomposite and Nanoporous Silica Thin-Films

Dhaval Doshi, Andrew Dattelbaum, Erik Watkins, Jaroslaw Majewski, Andrew Shreve (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Atul Parikh (University of California-Davis)

R1.257 Chromatographic detection of sugar cane samples via polarimetry.

Juan Carlos López, Victor Fajer (Center of Applied Technologies and Nuclear Development), Carlos W. Rodríguez, Salvador Naranjo (Biology Faculty, University of Havana), Luis Mora, Justo Ravelo, Gladys Cossio (Center of Applied Technology and Nuclear Development), Norma Avila (Biology Faculty, University of Havana)

R1.258 INFLUENCE OF THE SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH ON POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS IN THE VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED RANGE.

Victor Fajer, Juan Lopez, Justo Ravelo, Luis Mora, Humberto Fernández, Gladys Cossio (Center of Applied Technology and Nuclear Development)

R1.259 Quantum-instanton evaluation of the isotopic effects on the rate constants

Jiri Vanicek, William H. Miller (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)

R1.260 Fast non-adiabatic gates for the Kane quantum computer in the presence of dephasing

Hsi-Sheng Goan (University of New South Wales), Charles Hill (University of Queensland)

R1.261 Resolving power of the spherical grating X-ray emission spectrometers

Mikhail Yablonskikh, Tino Battaiger, Alexander Moewes (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, S7N5E2, Saskatoon, Canada)

R1.262 Ambipolar Field Effect Transistors Based on Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Vitaly Podzorov, Michael E. Gershenson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854), Christian Kloc, Roswitha Zeis, Ernst Bucher (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974)

R1.263 Transport Properties of Silicon-on-Insulator Materials: UHV Electrical Characterization

Adam J. Dickie, Robert A. Wolkow (National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2V4)

R1.264 Study of the Ohmic Contact Mechanism of Oxidized Ni/Au Contact to p-GaN

Erika Roesler, Hu Chengyu, Guoyi Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University)

R1.265 Level statistics and phase diagram for the Quantum Hall effect

Isa Zharekeshev (Institute for Theoretical Physics 3, University of Bochum, Germany)

R1.266 Magneto-Electric and Magneto-Dielectric Properties of Rare Earth Manganites

Soonyong Park, Namjung Hur, Peter Sharma, Sabyasachi Guha, S-W. Cheong (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854)

R1.267 Far infrared and Hall effect studies of the acceptor states in Si/Si1-xGex quantum well

Pu-Tai Yang, Chi-Shan Lee, Chun-Chieh Chang, Y. H. Chang (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), H. H. Cheng (Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University)

R1.268 Fabrication of Small Nanowire

Fabio Altomare, Albert Chang (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA), M.R. Melloch (AffiliationSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA), Yuguang Hong, C. W. Tsu (Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA)

R1.269 Slow-Light in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Pei-Cheng Ku, Forrest Sedgwick, Connie Chang-Hasnain (University of California at Berkeley), Phedon Palinginis, Tao Li, Hailin Wang (Oregon Center for Optics and University of Oregon), Shu-Wei Chang, Shun-Lien Chuang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

R1.270 Spin decoherence due to dipolar fluctuation of a spin-I nuclear bath

Rogerio de Sousa, Neil Shenvi, K. Birgitta Whaley (Department of Chemistry and Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460)

R1.271 Local magnetic moments at Mn 2p X-ray photoelectron and Mn L_\alpha,\beta X-ray emission spectra

Mikhail Yablonskikh (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 Canada), Jonathan Denlinger (ALS Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720), Manfred Neumann (Department of Physics, Osnabrück University, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany), Alexander Moewes (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 Canada)

R1.272 Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O superconducting thin films Preparation parameters interdependence

Elvia Díaz, Fernando Jiménez (Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas-IPN, Edif. 9 UPALM, México 07738 D.F., México), Milan Jergel, Alejandro Morales (Departamento de Física, CINVESTAV-IPN, A. P. 14-740, México 07000 D. F., México)

R1.273 Active and Dynamic Nanomaterials Based on Active Biomolecules

Steven J. Koch, Susan B. Rivera, Andrew K. Boal, J. Matthew Edwards, Joseph M. Bauer, Ronald P. Manginell, Jun Liu, Bruce C. Bunker, George D. Bachand (Sandia National Laboratories)

R1.274 A novel combined AFM/FRET non-contact imaging technique utilizing quantum dots

John Graham (University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Emanuel Escher, Michel Grandbois (Université de Sherbrooke, Départment de Pharmacologie), Escher Laboratory Collaboration, Grandbois Laboratory Collaboration

R1.275 Nature of the insulating phases and phase transitions in ionic Hubbard model

Mikheil Sekania, Arno P. Kampf (Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany), George Japaridze (Institute of Physics, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tamarashvili Street 6, 380077, Tbilisi, Georgia)

R1.276 On the Normal State Properties of the 2D Fermi System in Presence of Strong Correlation

Irina Bariakhtar (Boston College), Alexander Nazarenko (Sonic Software Corporation), Jan Engelbrecht (Boston College)

R1.277 Plasma-based Semiconductor Processing for Photonic Applications

Michael Bradley (Professor, Physics and Engineering Physics Dept., University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada)

R1.278 Analytical Purity Assessment of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Ryne Raffaelle, Brian Landi, Herb Ruf (NanoPower Research Laboratories, Rochester Institute of Technology)

R1.279 The Order-Disorder Transition in Gd Structures on W(112)

Ivan Yakovkin (Institute of Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Yaroslav Losovyj (Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska), Peter Dowben (Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska)

R1.280 Diblock Copolymer Phase Transitions Induced by an Electric Field

David M. Cooke, An-Chang Shi (McMaster University)

R1.281 Analysis of Al Content in AlxGa1-xN Via X-ray Diffraction and Rutherford Backscattering

Derek Wissmiller (Department of Physics at Illinois State University), Yu Lu, Guoyi Zhang (School of Physics at Peking University)

R1.282 Synthesis of Gallium Nitride Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Chris S. Kopech (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0264), Xihong Chen (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 100871), Dapeng Yu (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 100871)

R1.283 50nm resolution Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy (SHPM)

Munir Dede, Ahmet Oral (Bilkent University), Adarsh Sandhu (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kouichi Kurosawa (Hitachi Science Systems Ltd), Mehmet Parlak (Middle East Technical University), Bilkent Team, Tokyo Institute of Technology Team, Hitachi Science Systems Ltd Team, Middle East Technical University Team

R1.284 Constrained Dewetting of Grafted Polymers in Poor Solvents

June Huh, Won Ho Jo (School of Material Science and Engineering, Seoul National University)

R1.285 Magnetoelectric properties of magnetic/ferroelectric multilayered thin film.

Hiroaki Nishikawa, Masanobu Kusunoki, Shigeki Hontsu (B.O.S.T., Kinki University), Tomoji Kawai (ISIR-Sanken, Osaka University)

R1.286 Novel interference and dephasing effects in weak localization of light

D. Kupriyanov, I. Sokolov, M. Havey (Old Dominion Univ.), Y. Bidel, T. Chaneliere, D. Delande, R. Kaiser, G. Labeyrie, C. Miniatura, C.A. Muller, D. Wilkowski, E. Vaujour (Institute Nonlineaire de Nice)

R1.287 Influence of Hydrogen bonding to Electrical Conductivity of DNA-Based molecular wire

SWANAND VAIDYA, JAEWU CHOI (WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY)

R1.288 Supplemental

R1.289 LONG RANGE INTERACTION AND HETEROGENEITY

Mark Ya. Azbel' (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel+ and Max-Planck-Institute fur Festkorperforschung CNRS)

R1.290 A cross-sectional STM study of nanowhiskers

E. Lundgren, L. Outtara, A. Mikkelsen, J. N. Andersen (Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Institute of Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.), W. Sefert, L. Samuelson (Solid State Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.)

R1.291 Evaluation of Decoherence for Quantum Control and Computing

Leonid Fedichkin, Arkady Fedorov, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology, Clarkson University)

R1.292 Electron Transport through Gold Nanocrystal Arrays

E. Cimpoiasu, X. Liu (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A.), M. DiPasquale (Kent School, Kent, CT 06757, U.S.A.), Y. Sun, W. Chen, J. E. Lukens, M. Rafailovich (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A.)

R1.293 Energetics of single substitutional impurities in NiTi

Brian Good, Ronald Noebe (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135)